What this would solve:• Text is loaded before the images. This causes a rejigging of the text as the image loads. That's annoying and means the user needs to refocus their attention.• It makes quick scanning of the article more difficult as the text is pushed down the page and out of the viewport.• It would load articles much faster.• Most images are not important to the text and are just eye-candy. If one feels the image is important, a 'load images' contextual menu would suffice.